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    Only Killers and Thieves: A Novel
    Only Killers and Thieves: A Novel
    Only Killers and Thieves: A Novel
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    Only Killers and Thieves: A Novel

    By Paul Howarth

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    An epic tale of revenge and survival, Only Killers and Thieves  is a gripping and utterly transporting debut, bringing to life a colonial Australia that bears a striking resemblance to the American Wild West in its early years.

    It is 1885, and a crippling drought threatens to ruin the McBride family. Their land is parched; their cattle are starving. When the rain miraculously comes, it renews their hope for survival. But, returning home one afternoon after swimming in a remote water hole that had been replenished by the downpour, fourteen-year-old Tommy and sixteen-year-old Billy encounter a shocking tragedy.

    Thirsty for vengeance against the man who they believe has wronged them—their former Aboriginal stockman—the distraught brothers turn to the ruthless, cunning John Sullivan, their father’s former employer and the wealthiest landowner in the region. Sullivan gathers a posse, under the leadership of the dangerous, fascinating Inspector Edmund Noone, comprising members of the Queensland Native Police, an infamous arm of British colonial power charged with the “dispersal” of indigenous Australians to  “protect” the rights of white settlers. As they journey across the barren outback in pursuit, their harsh and horrifying experiences will have a devastating impact on Tommy, one that will torment him for the rest of his life—and will hold enduring consequences for a young country struggling to come into its own.

    Re-creating a period of Australian and British history evocative of the violence of the American frontier era, Only Killers and Thieves is an unforgettable story of family, guilt, empire, race, manhood, and faith.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateFeb 6, 2018
    ISBN9780062690999
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    Paul Howarth

    Paul Howarth is a British-Australian author and former lawyer who holds an MA in creative writing from University of East Anglia, where he was awarded the Malcolm Bradbury Scholarship. In 2018 his debut novel, Only Killers and Thieves, was published to international acclaim, winning the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for best fiction, and appearing on numerous other awards and books of the year lists.

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    • 4/5
      Set in Queensland, Australia, in 1885, brothers Billy and Tommy McBride are part of a ranching family struggling to survive in a harsh environment. After a tragic loss, they join the deceitful neighboring landowner on a hunt for those responsible. There is only one problem. The people they are hunting are innocent. The landowner is taking advantage of the situation to conduct a genocide.

      This novel is a story of brothers driven apart by differing convictions. It is a story of twisting the “law” for nefarious purposes. It is a historic novel based on the Native Police of the time, conducting “dispersal” of native people to accommodate colonial settlers. Unfortunately, frontier Australia was not much different from frontier America in the terrible treatment of the indigenous people.

      As a warning, this book contains many grisly descriptions of brutality, rape, and murder. Though the protagonist brothers are teens, it is not a young adult novel. The ending includes a small element of redemption. I found it well-crafted and extremely disturbing. It has inspired me to read more about Australian history.
    • 4/5
      Tommy and Billy McBride have grown up on an Australian cattle farm. In 1885, the farm was threatened by severe drought and the ensuing economic hardship. Their father refused help from his former employer John Sullivan, the wealthiest landowner in the district. The small staff of indigenous people left to find better work and escape the tensions of life on a struggling farm. And then one day, traged strikes.. Tommy and Billy are forced to get help from Sullivan, who forms a posse to seek revenge on the indigenous community he unquestionably believes was responsible. The boys join the search, which affects each of them profoundly, but in different ways. As unthinkable acts of violence are committed against indigenous people, Tommy realizes his idea of justice is radically different from Sullivan’s, and he pays a high price to extricate himself from this web of cruelty.On the surface, this novel was a fast-paced story of revenge. But Paul Howarth is going for something deeper here: an indictment of white colonialism through a heartbreaking account of its bigotry-driven violence.
    • 5/5
      Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth is an epic story about the Australian frontier in 1880s. It tells the story of the MacBride family, scratching a living out of raising cattle in the Outback wilderness of Queensland. Australia was finding that as more white people moved into the area with their livestock and fences, the aborigines were being forced off their ancestral lands. With no place for these natives to go, eventually the policy became one of genocide. Ned McBride tries to avoid the racial tensions and hold his ranch together with the help of his two teenage sons. Their rich neighbour, John Sullivan, has become associated with Inspector Edmund Noone, the leader of the Native Mounted Police, and on whose authority the killing of natives becomes one of law rather than murder. One day the boys come home to find their father and mother have been shot dead. They blame the killings on a disgruntled native stock-man and appeal to Sullivan and Noone for their help. What follows is a sickening bloodbath as a small posse is formed to hunt down the killers, or any native they find, and extract revenge. Eventually the real facts of the murders are exposed, leaving the two boys to deal with their consciences as best they can.Only Killers and Thieves takes an unflinching look at the brutality of the genocide that was carried out in the name of progress. And while the author definitely wants to expose this policy, the resulting story is riveting, well written and draws the reader into the Australian outback to experience first hand the reality of the violence and cruelty that was unleashed upon the indigenous population. If you can handle the violence, this is an excellent read.
    • 5/5
      "History is forgetting. Afterward we write the account, the account becomes truth, and we tell ourselves it has always been this way, that others were responsible, that there was nothing we could have done."Central Queensland, Australia, 1885Billy and Tommy McBride are teenagers, nearly men, who live in the unforgiving Australian bush with their parents. The drought has devastated their family farm and the worries about how they will survive is consuming them all. As the boys are out hunting any kind of animal that can provide their family with a meal, they witness a horrific murder of a native by the man who pretty much controls the entire district. Although they are sworn to secrecy in exchange for their lives, events turn ugly and brutal in no time at all.I had never heard of Paul Howarth, but I will follow him to the ends of the earth. A tremendously skilled writer with the ability to take terrible events and the treatment of the native population in Australia and write one of the most moving narratives I've ever read. My heart went out to these boys who were forced to grow up overnight and end up taking very different paths. Make no mistake, this is absolutely brutal stuff and the ultimate revenge novel, but so incredibly well done that I was holding my breath as I listened to the wonderful audio rendition by David Linski. The evil characters are incredibly evil and the good characters are incredibly good. The ending makes perfect sense but tore my heart out. Fabulous read.
    • 5/5
      Outstanding and profoundly moving
    • 5/5
      To write a story this dark, with only a hint of redemption in it, requires an expert writing ability. The fact that this is the author’s fist book is nearly impossible to believe. It’s not filled with gimmicks, he doesn’t show off, he simply writes a story that takes place in the late 1800’s in Australia, and does so so effortlessly that it is so easy to feel that you are right there.This is not a pleasant subject that is covered. Two boys parents are killed, by aboriginal’s and the decision is made to track them down and bring them to “justice”.This is a truly, ugly, dark violent time in in Australian history and what is described in this book may be difficult for some people to read. The writing is what elevates this book way above most new books on the shelves today.The comparisons to the American west are certainly present, and yes the storyline is what you will likely assume it to be. It doesn’t matter, even the worst characters- from this fiction book, which is deeply built around facts from the period- are written is such a way that you can identify who they are and why they believe what they do. You won’t like them or agree with them- thank god, but you will be compelled to see the story through until the end.This will easily make the top lists of a number of those who read it.
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite books for 2018! A Western and a wonderful coming-of-age novel.Two brothers, Tommy and Billy McBride, come from a struggling farm due to a long drought. One day after it rains and the boys come home from a swimming hole, they find their parents murder and their sister on the verge of death. Going to the man their father hated for help, the boys begin their journey of justice/revenge while experience the brutal realities of the world.I won this in a Goodreads Giveaway.
    • 5/5
      This historical fiction book set in Central Queensland, Australia in 1885 is a very difficult book to read. It is a coming of age book, a book filled with violence, brutality, racism and vengeance. While reading it, I kept saying to myself that I was so glad there at that time. There two boys, Billy, who is 16, and Tommy who is 14. . They live with their father, mother and younger sister on a cattle ranch plagued with drought. The cattle are dying, and their father father refuses to ask for help from his wealthy neighbor, John Sullivan. He had worked for Sullivan in the past and felt nothing but anger at him. He will not tell why he feels that way. The worse the times were, the more he drank. There is an Aborigine living apart from the house. There used to be more more in the area and on the ranch.When Billy and Tommy return from a trip and find their dogs dead, later in the house, they find their father and mother also killed and their sister, alive but not speaking. They start out to take their sister to the doctor in town which is a long drive. But their sister is in very bad shape so they go to the John Sullivan ranch which is closer. Billy starts to the tell the story and and John Sullivan shapes his words so Billy ends up lying about the deaths. saying that they were done by the Aborigines because of a gun that was found there. It is not the truth and the story gets much worse from thereon. The boys are encouraged to join John Sullivan, Noone, from the Naive Police to extract justice.This is a brutal chapter in Australian history. It is so horrible that it is difficult to read. I took a long time reading this book, I had to stop and think about what I had read so often. I am now interested in reading more of Australian history now and comparing it to what happened the American West Frontier history.I received an advanced reading copy of this book from the Publisher as a win from FirstReads but that in no way made a difference in my thoughts or feelings in this review.
    • 5/5
      “The guilt is collective, the responsibility shared. In a hundred years no one will even remember what happened here and certainly no one will care. History is forgetting. Afterward we write the account, the account becomes truth, and we tell ourselves it has always been this way, that others were responsible, that there was nothing we could have done.”“The frontier crossing turned Tommy's gut. Their passing from settled land to wild. All his life he feared it, the uncharted west, looming like a shadow on the edge of the world.”It is 1885, Queensland, in the Australian outback. The McBride family are struggling to survive on a drought-ridden piece of land. There are two teenage sons and a younger daughter. When tragedy strikes the family, the sons are set adrift and take refuge with John Sullivan, a local, rich, landowner. Sullivan is convinced that the crime was committed by avenging aborigines and hires a posse to track down the perpetrators. The brothers are allowed to come along, on this nightmarish hunt, shedding their boyhoods, as they share and hold witness to violence and racial genocide, on this bloody crusade.This is a well-crafted and powerful work, with echoes of Cormac McCarthy, capturing the moody and brutal landscape, of an unforgiving frontier. What a strong and accomplished debut.

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